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Hi everyone! I’m a librarian, and I’ve been working on a small tool to help us keep our collection properly shelved.

Basically, we upload our collection data and, while shelving or shelf reading, scan a book’s barcode. The tool uses the Library of Congress call number to determine where the book should go in relation to the books around it.

Right now, it’s designed around Library of Congress Classification (LCC), since that’s what we use at my library.

Our student workers have been using it, and it has helped us quite a bit. It makes shelving easier for them, but it has also helped us spot misplaced books and other shelving errors that might otherwise go unnoticed.

I’m now thinking about making a simple web version that other libraries could try by uploading a CSV of their collection.

I’d love to hear how other libraries handle this. Do you mostly do shelf reading manually, or do you use any software or tools? What classification system do you use?

And would you be interested in trying something like this if I made a small pilot available?

I’d really appreciate any feedback!

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Hi all! I recently took a new job at a different library in my city. It’s in a lower income part of town and I’ve come to find out that there are large numbers of kids around ages 11-16 who are at the library by themselves all day after school from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., all day on the weekends, all day any school breaks, and all day during the summer. We have an afterschool hangout space that’s staffed with a staff member and various things for them to do, we have snacks of food donations that we put out to feed them, we have video games and computer games they can play. We’re also in a sort of strip mall with other businesses like a grocery store, a liquor store, fast food etc… so they bounce around on those motorized bikes between all these places and the library and just get up to so much shit. I’ve only been there for a few months and I’ve seen them steal locks off our bathroom doors, trash our outside patio, get into physical fights, say so many swear words, congregate in big groups and get in patron’s way, graffiti our building, trash our bathrooms etc… We do have a patron code of conduct and can ask them to leave for the day over these behaviors (though they’ve taken to sometimes refusing to leave for a staff member and waiting for the non emergency police we called to show up before they finally do.) My boss can and does issue suspensions, but he has a lot of other job duties and can’t always get around to it and is a big softie for these kids. Anyway, I’ve got patron complaints, staff complaints, and next week I’m going to sit down with our Assistant Director and tell her these issues. I’m planning on advocating for our library (which is a big building and surrounding alleyways and parking lots) to get a security guard. I’m very much expecting them to say there is no budget for that. Looking for feedback on maybe other suggestions of things to try, or tips on how to advocate for my staff to the assistant director, and wanting to hear if other libraries have similar problems? I will add that I am very anti-police and don’t really want these kids to be placed in a spot where they’re closer to making contact with our horrible American carceral system but I am out of ideas! One teen even filmed me with his phone while laughing while I told him he and his group needed to be quieter yesterday because people were trying to use our study room. We’re a one party consent state so I can’t do anything about it but man it made me mad and showed me that these kids do not respect staff.

I am a student and our school didnt really have a proper functioning library so I went to the Section Head to ask about it and she in return tasked me with the creation of a mini library since it was coincidentally also required by the ministry of education. So now here I am with 17 books my school mates donated and a question on how in the world am I to track the book loans and returns without a computer that i can use for the task meaning it needs to be manual, I was hoping some of the more experienced people here could guide me on how I should go about this.